President Donald Trump visited police and troops Thursday that he has deployed in the US capital in what he calls a crackdown on crime, saying they were going to "stay here for a while."

Trump ordered hundreds of members of the Guard, a reserve force, to deploy in Washington last week vowing to "take our capital back," despite protests by some residents and statistics showing violent offenses falling.

"We're going to make it safe, and we're going to then go on to other places, but we're going to stay here for a while. We want to make this absolutely perfect," the Republican said outside a US Park Police facility in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington.

He was surrounded by law enforcement from various local and federal agencies as well as National Guard troops.

Earlier Thursday the

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